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The Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation (SSSF) announced the launch of its new youth development program called the Scholastic Pistol Program (SPP) today. The SPP provides the opportunity for young adults to participate in the exciting and challenging family sport of “speed shooting” in a safe and supportive environment taught by trained and dedicated adult coaches who are focused on teaching the safe handling and firing of handguns.
SPP is organized based on age, Junior Division (ages 12-16), Senior Division (ages 17-20) and Collegiate Division (no age limit, must be full time student).
The basic competitive unit for SPP is a four person squad; each squad shoots four (4) “stages”. In SPP competition, your time is your score, calculated in conjunction with the number of misses. Total score for all stages will determine the shooters “match” score. The combined scores of the four shooters become the squad’s match score.
SPP is based on production center fire handguns (9mm) firing at steel plate targets and offers an introduction to a lifetime sport that family members can enjoy together. This new program will be a welcome addition to the SSSF family. SPP Director, Scott Moore will manage the program with assistance from Tammy Mowry. Scott has many years of experience in the shooting industry and specifically the handgun sports.
“We are excited to add this new program to the SSSF and to be able to offer yet another shooting sport opportunity to our existing and future members,” said SSSF Executive Director, Dan Hathaway. SSSF Board of Trustees Chair, Louise Terry indicated that “the SPP is a wonderful additional program that will run in parallel with the SCTP under the auspices of the SSSF, and will extend our Foundation’s ability to serve our mission of introducing more young people to the shooting sports in a team based environment”.
The Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation (SSSF) is responsible for all aspects of the Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) and Scholastic Pistol Program (SPP) across the United States, including participant registration, coaches, state coordinators, state and national championships, promotion, communications, websites, public relations and growth strategies The Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation exists to raise funding and other resources for Youth Development Programs in the shooting sports industry.
SCTP is a youth development program, originally developed by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), where adult coaches and volunteers model sportsmanship, responsibility, honesty, ethics, integrity, and team work while using shooting sports programs to teach these and other positive life skills to SCTP athletes.
To learn more about SCTP or SPP call (586) 7397-SCTP (7287) or visit their website at www.shootsctp.org